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While nothing short of a perusal of the complete text of the oration in question can give an adequate ides of how much folly a 'varsity president can pump through his face in a given period, its salient features can be summed up in a brief paragraph: "The schoolmaster represents the two greatest factors in modern progress education and organization.
At last, after six days of this luxurious imprisonment, on the day before the Ides of July, sometime before noon, my apartment was entered by Juvenalis himself in the full regalia of Prefect of the Palace. He greeted me deferentially and was most respectful.
A bed, a coarse footstool, like that which Robert had just launched at the head of the tiger, and a table of equally massive materials, were its only articles of furniture. On a long stone, above the bed, were these few, but terrible words: Zedekias Ursel, imprisoned here on the Ides of March, A.D. . Died and interred on the spot" A blank was left for filling up the period.
"If you can persuade yourself to finish your picturesque tour before the ides of the charming month of November, do, my dear Clarence! make haste and come back to us in time for Belinda's wedding and do not forget my commission about the Dorsetshire angel; bring me one in your right hand with a gold ring upon her taper finger so help you, Cupid! or never more expect a smile
Kossuth's Credentials Cincinnati, Feb. 25th. Harmony of the Executive and of the People in America Indianapolis, at the State House, Feb 27th. Importance of Foreign Policy and of strengthening England Louisville, March 6th, at the Court House. Catholicism versus Jesuitism St. Louis, Missouri. The Ides of March St. Louis, March 15th.
Not since the fateful morning of the Ides of March, when he had just mentioned it as an unreported incident of a certain cricket tour, had I succeeded in getting a word out of Raffles on the subject.
Suppose it, then, a bright and balmy day in the sunny ides of June the earth is now in all the luxuriant pride of her summer beauty; for although the summer is long coming, yet, when it does begin, vegetation is so rapid that a few short days call it forth in all its loveliness; nay, the transition is so quick, that I have observed its workings in an hour's space.
I must walk carefully, or these thoughtless ones would begin to suspect there was an impostor among them. "Aha!" There was mine ancient friend Julius. "Hail Caesar!" He stopped. "Shall I beware the Ides of March?" I asked jovially. "Nay, my good Cassius; rather beware of the ten of hearts," said Caesar in hollow tones, and he was gone. The ten of hearts again! Hang the card!
As Caesar was sacrificing, the victim's heart was missing, a very bad omen, because no living creature can subsist without a heart. One finds it also related by many, that a soothsayer bade him prepare for some great danger on the ides of March.
But at the Dipylon Gate an end was put to their converse with the past. The whole Roman colony of students was there to meet them, and it was evident that the crowd was mastered by some unprecedented emotion. Marcus darted forward, and it was he who turned to Horace with whitened face, and said in a curiously dull voice, "Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides."
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